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Why keep two AI assistants?
An AI assistant is a program that does work after you describe the job in plain words: draft this email, summarize these notes, tidy this folder. You never type technical commands; describing what you want is the whole interface. Without an assistant, every one of those jobs stays yours to do by hand.
Claude, made by Anthropic, and , made by OpenAI, are the two assistants this course sets up. On your desktop, Claude runs in the Claude app, while Codex is a view you choose inside the ChatGPT app. The idea is identical in both: you describe the job, the assistant does the work.
Keeping both is not a winner-and-spare arrangement. Each assistant is capable on its own, so each gets work of its own: a second take when you are stuck, and another draft to compare when the answer matters.
Practice
Question stem
A friend sees the Claude and ChatGPT apps on your computer and asks why you did not pick one assistant. What do you tell them?
Answer
Pick the answer that gives both apps a job.